Rome

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Season 1
  • Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Aug 28, 2005
Season #: 2, 1
User Score
9.2

Universal acclaim- based on 220 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 208 out of 220
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 220
  3. Negative: 5 out of 220
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Awards & Rankings

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#13 Best TV Season of 2005
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#41 Most Discussed TV Season of 2005
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#5 Most Shared TV Season of 2005

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Metascore
71

Generally favorable reviews - based on 25 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 25
  3. Negative: 2 out of 25
  1. San Diego Union-Tribune
    Reviewed by: Robert P. Laurence
    Jan 28, 2014
    75
    The finished product is passably entertaining, intermittently involving, tolerably well acted by an all-English cast, and offers enough kinky sex and graphic violence to satisfy all but the most depraved tastes. [22 Aug 2005, p.D-1]
  2. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Doug Elfman
    Jan 28, 2014
    25
    Rome is so jam-packed with Caesar and pals, it feels like a show that high school teachers would ask students to watch, if it weren't for all the whore sex, rape and consensual carnality. It very well might take an apt pupil to follow this cinematic jigsaw puzzle. [24 Aug 2005, p.55]
  3. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Linda Stasi
    Jan 28, 2014
    88
    The only chink in the series' armour is the miscasting of Polly Walker as the evil Atia. She overacts so much, that it'll make you ache for Sian Phillips' long-ago portrayal as Livia in "I Claudius." While Rome's not as great as that old series, it's still deserves a helluva Hail Caesar!
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